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		<title>Subscribe today to our commentaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We encourage you to subscribe today to all commentaries by Charleston writer and analyst Andy Brack.  Every week, you&#8217;ll receive commentaries about Charleston, S.C., and the Palmetto state on everything from politics to observations about daily life.  Click here to receive commentaries by email via Feedburner.  (You can set the frequency of email sent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New job might have saved McConnell’s life</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/05/new-job-might-have-saved-mcconnells-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY 11, 2012 -- Becoming South Carolina’s lieutenant governor in March just might have saved Glenn McConnell’s life. 

“People have said ever since I came down here, I look healthier and I’ve been healing faster,” said McConnell, the powerful Senate president pro tempore who resigned from a job he loved to take over for disgraced former Lt. Gov. Ken Ard, who was sentenced March 9 on ethics charges.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton, speakers to grads: Don&#8217;t be afraid to fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graduation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MAY 7, 2012 -- It's the season for graduation speeches and former President Bill Clinton gave a good one Saturday to the 235 graduates of Columbia College in our capital city. (Watch the speech.)

He started, in typical engaging Clinton style, with a story. He bet the graduates that they wouldn't remember much about the speaker because of so many other things that were going on that day. But he added that he remembered the whole commencement address of the Washington, D.C., mayor who spoke at his graduation from Georgetown in 1968 as a huge storm cloud threatened to deluge the ceremony.]]></description>
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		<title>SC is case study on how not to run an election</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/05/sc-is-case-study-on-how-not-to-run-an-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/05/sc-is-case-study-on-how-not-to-run-an-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 21:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candidate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MAY 4, 2012 -- Just as South Carolina wipes away one pie that hit it in the face, another sails in and lands with a big splat on the state’s reputation.

One day after hearing oral arguments on a case of whether more than 100 people didn’t properly file disclosure paperwork when they signed up to be candidates, the S.C. Supreme Court Wednesday ruled they couldn’t appear on the ballots.

The Legislature reeled as complicated election calculus in House and Senate elections got turned on its head. Both major political parties got caught with their pants down for being slack in nurturing candidates on the proper way to file. And voters sighed, again embarrassed by a state that can’t keep from doing dumb things.]]></description>
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		<title>Grand media experiments start this week</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/grand-media-experiments-start-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Charleston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 30, 2012 -- So the grand experiment is to start today for our family: Living without cable television.

We've had Comcast and Knology over the years. Now we've got DirecTV. We like them all, except for two things -- they're expensive ($100-plus per month) and we don't use them all that much. Our children watch some of the kids' shows. My wife will get glued to one of the cable news channels every now and then. I like HGTV and the Food Network. And the Comedy Channel gets a thumbs up around here. ]]></description>
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		<title>Push SC&#8217;s agenda, not someone else’s</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/push-scs-agenda-not-someone-elses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/push-scs-agenda-not-someone-elses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 27, 2012 -- If you have ever been caught with your hand in the cookie jar, you can imagine what some big corporations and conservative state legislators are feeling today about their association with the American Legislative Exchange Council.

The group, informally known as “ALEC,” has been in the news over the past week for how it allows lobbyists and legislators from around the country to cozy up to each other at conventions and special meetings where they work together to craft model legislation for bills to introduce in statehouses across the country.]]></description>
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		<title>On hold:  High court needs to rule on 1993 case</title>
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		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/on-hold-high-court-needs-to-rule-on-1993-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 20, 2012 -- It takes four years for most high school students to graduate from high school. Most college students traditionally also graduate in four years.

But four years apparently isn’t enough time for the state Supreme Court to come to a conclusion about a festering school funding case first filed by poor South Carolina school districts in 1993. Yes, 1993. A student in first grade back then should, by now, be out of college and could even have a master’s degree. This thing has been going on that long.]]></description>
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		<title>Get the name right of the guy for whom bridge is named</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/get-the-name-right-of-the-guy-for-whom-bridge-is-named/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/get-the-name-right-of-the-guy-for-whom-bridge-is-named/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Charleston]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 16, 2012 -- Imagine my surprise on a trip to local strawberry fields over the weekend when we spied a sign for the "Easu Jenkins Memorial Bridge" " across Church Creek between Johns and Wadmalaw islands.

At first, I didn't think I saw it right. "Easu Jenkins?," I wondered. "Surely the Highway Department couldn't have made that whopping of a mistake."

Yes, it did. Boneheads.

Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was a Johns Island native and local civil rights hero for his life's work to improve economic, health and political conditions for residents of the Sea Islands of South Carolina.]]></description>
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		<title>2012 elections won’t change much at Statehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/2012-elections-wont-change-much-at-statehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/2012-elections-wont-change-much-at-statehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[APRIL 13, 2012 -- With 170 Statehouse seats up for election this year, you’d think there would be a lot of change ahead.

Not really. Based on an analysis of the primary contests in June and general elections in November, about the only thing you’ll probably see in Columbia is a few more Republicans. ]]></description>
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		<title>Option for Haley&#8217;s book: Take a pass</title>
		<link>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/option-for-haleys-book-take-a-pass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andybrack.org/2012/04/option-for-haleys-book-take-a-pass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Brack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On South Carolina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like Haley and want to be pumped up, go ahead and spend $28 for what seems more like a transcribed version of a lot of self-taped conversations than a book. Otherwise, don't bother. Haley is trying too hard to be a real-life fairy tale.]]></description>
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